The Viqueira Group, the company behind the luxury La Tejita hotel on the Tenerife coast in Granadilla de Abona, denies in a statement sent this Friday that the work is being carried out on public maritime land, as claimed by activists opposing the project, and emphasizes that they comply with the law.
“The work currently being carried out on our property has the favorable ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of Canary Islands (TSJC),” asserts the Galician promoter, adding: “The rulings explicitly state that the authorization and urban planning license complied with the demarcation of the current maritime land area, and as mentioned in the ruling of the Supreme Court, Third Chamber, Section 5, of May 6, 2002, a subsequent demarcation cannot affect licenses already granted”.
The promoter warns in the statement sent to the media “of the misinformation and manipulation being promoted by the group opposing the project regarding its legality, citing old documents when all rulings have been favorable and the works are covered by all necessary legal titles”.
Activists halt construction on the La Tejita hotel this Thursday. / Alberto Valdés (Efe)
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Construction work on the hotel in an ecologically valuable location, a luxury establishment called La Tejita Beach Club Resort, began in May 2019 and was halted in May 2021. Grupo Viqueira resumed work on February 26. This came after receiving approval from the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands, confirming the legality of the urban initiative.
Three rulings support the company. These are resolutions from the administrative litigation court of the TSJC, imposing costs on the corresponding authorities, as a result of the illegal halts of the works four years ago ordered by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge and the Canarian Agency for the Protection of the Natural Environment.
Three rulings from the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands endorse the Galician promoter to continue work in El Médano, in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona
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These judgments of the Canary high court, which are now final, confirm that the works have all the necessary legal permits to be carried out and that the approved demarcation modification does not make the works “illegal”.
Grupo Viqueira, with its main office in Galicia, always maintained that the project had all the necessary authorizations and licenses required for its execution, obtained in accordance with the demarcation approved in 2002, before its revision began.
Likewise, Grupo Viqueira announced that it will take legal action for the economic damages caused by the illegal halts of the project. They have always defended the legality of their actions, which has been endorsed by the firm judicial pronouncements obtained.
